Plainclothes officers approached her in the alley and the woman pointed the gun toward them, police said. The officers fired at her, hitting her several times, police said.

The woman matched the description provided by the 911 callers, and the officers told her they were the police before they opened fire, according to a statement released by the department early Friday morning.

Fraternal Order of Police spokesman Patrick Camden said the weapon was a BB gun and that she had ducked behind a garbage can before poking back up and pointing it toward the officers.

"Nobody's going to wait around to see if it's real or a toy," Camden said.

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